That's
the sort of abuse you'll hear from the mouths of religious bigots if you decide,
in the name of all that is decent, not to heed their hocus-pocus.

Religious
bigots and fanatics assume they have an unquestionable monopoly on knowing what
is right and wrong, true and false, natural and unnatural. Some will go
as far as to claim they're actually chosen by God. Seeing yourself as one of
God's favourites means that God doesn't favour others as much as
God favours you. That means you either have a bloated opinion of your own excellence and a very low opinion of your God!

Such belief in your own God-given superiority leads to the conclusion that you have the divine right to treat
others as inferior. Trouble is that some of those others may have chosen
to consider themselves chosen by another God. If they do they'll see you as
lesser mortals in the same way as you look down on them. That's when the «My-God-can-beat-up-your-God» syndrome sets in and
people feel justified in harming each other in the name of their respective
Gods.

This
religious ignorance is childish, arrogant and destructive. It's arrogant
not just towards the ‘lesser’ mortals but also, if you’re a believer,
towards whichever version of God is involved. In most religions no mortal
is permitted the arrogance of claiming exclusive rights on matters supposedly
divine and immortal.

It's
through such unilaterally declared divine right and superiority that humans
find ridiculous justifications for committing attrocities like the holocaust,
the Vietnam war, the exploitation of Latin American and Arab peoples in the
hunt for profits, the killing of innocent civilians in suicide attacks, the
bombing of innocent civilians in Lebanon and Gaza, etc. ‘Onward, Christian
soldiers’, ‘Gott mitt uns’, ‘holy war’, ‘crusade’,
‘jihad’, ‘God's chosen people’, ‘promised land’,
etc. There are no bounds to the destruction caused by the bigoted abracadabra-hocus-pocus hooligans of holy violence . Give us a break!

Fanatic fundamenalists (e.g. right-wing Christians, Jihadists and Zionists)
should remember that the only guarantee for religious freedom and respect is, as Akbar the Great (1542-1605) realised, the separation of state and religious powers, and, as both Ghandi
and Atatürk
demonstrated, a secular society. [1]

That’s
just one good reason for becoming an atheist today. It's no use
leaving matters of morality and ethics to the unilaterally self-appointed
hijackers of divine right and retribution. We have to reclaim those values for ourselves as human beings, not just
from religious bigots and fanatics but also from the foul perversions of capitalist consumerism, including its insidious
propaganda (‘advertising’) and its own cynical brand
of hocus-pocus about the Holy Market.

We got fundamentalist Muslims,We got fundamentalist Jews,We got fundamentalist ChristiansTo blow the whole thing up for you.But as I travel around this big ol' worldThe one thing that I most fearIs a white man in a golf shirtWith a cellphone in his ear.Tom Russell: Who's Gonna Build Your Wall? (2007), verse 3.

1.
‘The religion of Islam will be elevated if it will cease to be a political
instrument’ (Atatürk, 1924; Wikipedia
article, footnote 25).